Byzantine Empire

New Rome was one of the titles given to the city of Constantinople (present day Istanbul). The titles were "Roma Constantiniana," "The Eastern Rome." the "New, Second Rome" and "Alma Roma." The emperor Constantine the Great designated the city of Byzantium as his imperial capital, redeveloped it and renamed it after himself (Constantinople means City of Constantine). It was inaugurated in 330.

As for the so-called "Byzantine" Empire, it was the continuation of the Roman Empire. The term Byzantine was coined by a German historian in the 16th century to indicate the people of the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part of this empire, which continued to exist for nearly another 1,000 years. The terms Byzantine and Byzantine Empire became common in Western Europe in the 19th century. The people in question did not know these terms and called their empire Roman Empire. Therefore the so-called Byzantine Empire is the Roman Empire of period from the fall of the western part of this empire in 476 to the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks (1543) who had already taken over what had remained of this empire (other parts of this empire had already fallen to the Slavs, Arabs and Seljuk Turks earlier).

The term Byzantine was chosen as a derivation from Byzantium, the city which redeveloped as Constantinople and which had originally been a Greek city. It is used to indicate the fact that not long after the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire, this part of the empire became centred on Greece and Greek in character after it lost most of its non-Greek territories. Greek replaced Latin as the official language of this empire in 620, some 150 years after the fall of the western part.

The ban ended iconoclasm in the Byzantine Empire and allowed the art of Christian figures to flourish.

late Roman Empire: the eastern part of the late Roman Empire, from ad 330 to 1453, when its capital Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. It was the center of Orthodox Christianity.

The Byzantine Empire's most lasting contribution to the world's architecture were the churches.

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>Constantinople fell with rome in 414 to the Byzantine Empire.

>>Constantinople fell on May 29, 1453 to Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror. This is when the Byzantine Empire also fell, and the Hagia Sophia became a mosque.

The eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire were not separate. They were two units of the same empire. The terms Eastern Roman Empire and Western Roman Empire have been coined by historians. The Romans did not use them. The political difference between these parts of the empire occurred when there were co-emperorships with one emperor in charge of the east and one in charge of the west. Therefore, in such cases they were two jurisdictions, one under each emperor.

In the 280s Diocletian established Nicomedia (in north-western Turkey) as the imperial seat in the east and Milan (in northern Italy) as the imperial seat in the west. Constantine the Great designated Byzantium (in Greece, some 70 miles west of Nicomedia) as his imperial seat in 330 and renamed it Constantinople. He ruled from there as sole emperor. Twenty-seven year after the death of Constantine, two brothers, Valentinian and Valens established a co-emperorship, with the former in charge of the west and the latter in charge of the latter.

Historians argue that after the death of Theodosius the Great in 390 the empire became split. This was not due to a political decision. It was down to circumstances. Theodosius I was succeeded by his two sons (Arcadius in the east and Honorius in the west) who were young, inexperienced and incompetent. This resulted in politicians in the east and west conspiring against each other and a loss of unity. Moreover, soon after this the western part of the empire was invaded by Germanic peoples. Under the strain of this, the western part lost political cohesion. There was infighting and usurpations, resulting in the Romans being unable to deal with the invaders effectively. Eventually this part of the empire fell. At times the eastern part of the empire meddled in the affairs of the western part.

The eastern part of the Roman Empire was not affected by the mentioned invasions and continued to exit for nearly 1000 years. Historians have coined the term Byzantine Empire to indicate the eastern part of the empire after the fall of the western part.

During the latter part of the history of the Roman Empire, it was divided for administrative purposes into eastern and western halves. The western half was overrun by the Goths in the 5th century, but the eastern half continued to exist until the Turks finally conquered it in the 15th century.

The eastern half of the Roman Empire evolved into what we call the Byzantine Empire, inheriting all the Roman Empire's practices and customs.

The main change was that Greek (replacing Latin) gradually became the official langauge.

So, the Byzantine Empire is the continuation of the eastern half of the Roman Empire.

Becuase they were weak The Greeks never had an empire. All they were globally were a collection of independent city-states. Alexander the Great tried to establish an empire but at his death it all fell apart. So there is no comparison.

It wasent. The Byzantines where actually part of the Roman Empire, but they did not fall when the rest of the empire did. So, technically, the Byzantine Empire is the leftover of The Roman Empire.

The Byzantine Empire outlasted the Western Roman Empire by over 1,000 years. This had a lot to do with the fact that they reorganised much of the Roman system for laws, military and government. Also, the byzantines adapted their tactics to the conditions. COnstantinople, the capital, which became near impregnable and fabulously wealthy, was another key reason for the Byzantines survival.

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Justinian tried to rebuild the Roman Empire. His armies conquered many territories, the Iberian Peninsula, north of Africa, and Italy. He modernized the Roman laws. But after Justinian's death, the Byzantine Empire began to lose territory.

The Byzantine Empire ended because of the Ottoman Turks attacking and taking over Constantinople, which was the capital causing the empire to downfall.

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To reunite the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches...now that is the right answer :)

In the 6th century, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian won back many of the lands that had once been part of the Roman Empire. Under him, the Byzantine empire was larger than it would ever be again. Justinian's dream was to create a great Christian empire. With the help of his wife, Theodora, he set up a new system of laws, and gave orders for many churches to be built. Priests, artists and merchants all visited his palace.

(By the year 400, the Roman Empire had split into two parts. The Empire in the west was attacked by warlike tribes and collapsed in the year 476, but the Empire in the east survived for another thousand years. The eastern Empire was known as the Byzantine Empire because its capital city, Constantinople, was originally called Byzantium. The capital city of Byzantine was named after the empire Constantine.)

The Byzantine Empire was in the eastern part of the Roman Empire, and continued following the fall of Rome in the west. The city of Byzantium was rebuilt and made Constantine's capital around 330 AD. The Byzantine Empire ruled until the Ottoman Turks overtook Constantinople in 1453 AD.

The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire after the split first initiated by Emperor Diocletian in the 200s A.D. and finalized by Constantine's reign. The official language was Latin, until 620 where it was changed to Greek after Emperor Justinian's reign.

The main impact which the Byzantine Empire has had on the modern societies of many eastern European countries is the spread of Orthodox Christianity by Byzantine missionaries.

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Through its public works projects the Roman Empire built aqueducts roads bridges harbors and other infrastructure tat significantly improves the welfare of its people.

The Islamic Empire was a competing empire at the time. They both flourished in art. They also had very strong yet different religious beliefs;the Byzantines were Christians and the Islamic s were Muslim.

There was not an Islamic Empire. The Arab force which attacked the Byzantine Empire was the Umayyad Caliphate. It took over Egypt and the Levant (Palestine, Lebanon and Syria) but not Turkey.

The Sassanid (Persian) Empire, the Bulgarian Empire (which took over the lower Danube area) and the Rus of Kiev were major competitors before this. In the Byzantine-Sassanid war he two empires exhausted each other and this made way for the Umayyads advance which took over Persia as well.

After the Umayyads, the challengers were the Seljuk Turks who took over eastern Turkey, and the Crusaders. The latter formed the Latin Empire which took over much of Greece and the northwest strip of the Turkish coast, and set up the vassal states of the Duchy of Athens and the Principality of Achaea (the Peloponnese peninsula) . This split the Byzantine Empire into the Empire of Nicaea (western Turkey)and the Despotate of Epirus (western Greece). Serbia and Hungary took over the rest of the Balkans. The Byzantines eventually managed to expel the crusaders.

Finally, the nail in the coffin was put by the Ottoman Turks which took over the Byzantine Empire

Was Constantinople, formerly Byzantium, now Istanbul.